Pass notesMona LisaItalian archaeologists believe they’ve found the skeleton of the model for Da Vinci’s La Gioconda. There’s only one small problem – they can’t find her headName: Mona Lisa.
Age: 510ish.
Appearance: Oil-on-poplar-y. Smiling enigmatically in the Louvre.
How’s she doing? Not been stolen again, I hope? No, she’s fine. In fact, there’s good news!
Dan Brown is writing a book revealing that the location of the inner sanctum of the lizard overlords of the Illuminati is encoded in the folds of her frock?
Tomorrow’s world Photograph: Serge Attukwei Clottey/WaterAidThe UN declared access to water and sanitation a human right a decade ago, but 785 million people worldwide still have no water close to home
Ten photographs marking the 10th anniversary of access to water and sanitation being declared a human right by the UN have been commissioned from 10 visual artists by the charity WaterAid to show the impact of clean water on people’s lives.
The BBC’s Dickensian featured War and Peace’s Tuppence Middleton and newcomer Joseph Quinn. Photograph: Liam Daniel/BBC/Red Planet Productions/Liam DanielThe BBC’s Dickensian featured War and Peace’s Tuppence Middleton and newcomer Joseph Quinn. Photograph: Liam Daniel/BBC/Red Planet Productions/Liam DanielBBC This article is more than 7 years oldBBC axes Dickensian after one seriesThis article is more than 7 years oldBig-budget drama launched with 5 million viewers, but lost audience over the course of its 20-episode run
FootballObituaryBobby Smith obituaryPowerful Tottenham Hotspur and England centre-forwardA prolific and effective centre-forward, Bobby Smith, who has died aged 77, played 15 times for England, and with Tottenham Hotspur won the first League and FA Cup double of the century in 1960-61, scoring 28 goals in the League. The following season he added a second FA Cup medal, and many felt he was unlucky not to be included in the England squad that went to the 1962 World Cup finals in Chile.
A customer purchases water at a Watermill Express water dispensary location in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego. Photograph: John Francis Peters/The GuardianA customer purchases water at a Watermill Express water dispensary location in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego. Photograph: John Francis Peters/The GuardianCaliforniaVended water is many times more expensive than tap water. And there isn’t much evidence to show customers are getting the quality they’re paying for
Customers stream into the parking lot of a San Diego strip mall, lining up behind a windmill-shaped vending machine that fills their jugs for 25 to 35 cents a gallon.